Our subsidised food exports reduce others to starvation

THE Johannesburg speech given

Our subsidised food exports reduce others to starvation
Tue, 17 Sep, 2002 - 01:00
the Taoiseach showed either great insincerity or ignorance of the facts. Besides the 40 million cut in Ireland’s Development Aid, EU export subsidies and trade barriers take income from millions of extremely poor people.

Subsidised Irish milk powder is dumped below the cost of production in Jamaica, destroying the livelihoods of dairy farmers there.

Nomadic herdsmen in Namibia are robbed of their South African market by massively subsidised Irish beef, and Mozambique sugar growers cannot sell their produce to us because of EU restrictions.

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